Meningitis outbreak claims second Florida life

2:22 PM,
Oct. 11, 2012

(AP Photo/Hannah Foslien)

Written by

Sean Rossman
Breaking news reporter

The state of Florida has experienced its second death related to the fungal meningitis outbreak while the number of confirmed cases in the state to seven, according to the Florida Department of Health.

An 83-year-old Marion County man died as a result of the outbreak which now has a death count of 14 nationwide and a case count of 170, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The man was injected with one of the contaminated lots of the New England Compounding Center's epidural ...